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Shell and MIT to Fund Projects Focusing on Nanotechnology and Other Fields

Shell and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today signed an agreement to invest $25 million in the research and development of high value, sustainable technologies designed to drive innovation in energy del...

15 Oct 2010

Scientists Demonstrate Enhanced Laser-Based Molecular Fingerprinting System

Scientists at JILA and collaborators have demonstrated an improved laser-based "molecular fingerprinting" technique that picks out traces of key hydrogen-containing and other molecules from a billion other particles in a gas in just 30 seconds or less—performance suitable for breathalyzers for diagnosing disease, measuring trace gases in the atmosphere, detecting security threats and other applications.

15 Oct 2010

Solving Single Molecule Mobility

Nanotechnologists assemble intricate nanodevices, such as computer chips, molecule by molecule using ‘bottom-up’ techniques that mirror nature. One approach shuttles molecules along surfaces into new and func...

14 Oct 2010

Combining Plastics and Nanoparticles to Achieve New Properties

These days, plastic components are vital to many fields of industry – lightweight construction, automobile manufacturing and electrical engineering, to name but a few. Now researchers have found ingenious ways to combine plastics with nanoparticles and endow them with new properties.

14 Oct 2010

Modern, Compact Ion Injector Feeds New Kinds of Particles to RHIC and NSRL

A new source of ions will soon be the starting point for the beams entering two major research facilities at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory — the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), where physicists are recreating conditions of the early universe to learn more about the forces that hold matter together, and the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL), where scientists study the effects of space radiation to help find ways to protect astronauts.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 14 Oct 2010

Veeco Receives Order from LED Manufacturer in China

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), announced today that Hangzhou Silan Azure Co. Ltd., a major LED manufacturer in China, has placed a multi-tool order for Veeco’s TurboDisc® K465iTM Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Systems.

From Veeco 14 Oct 2010

Veeco Announces Expansion in Asia to Support Rapid Growth of LED Industry

At the 7th China International Forum for Solid State Lighting, John R. Peeler, Chief Executive Officer of Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: VECO), announced a significant expansion of Veeco's Asia presence in order to ...

From Veeco 14 Oct 2010

Investments Enable Development of World's First Pilot Production Line for Organic LEDs

Moser Baer Technologies, Inc. ("MBT"), the U.S. division of Moser Baer India, Ltd., Universal Display Corporation ("UDC"), and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's ("CNSE")...

14 Oct 2010

Caltech Releases NanoSystems Partnership Program Along with CEA-Leti

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and CEA-Leti, co-founders of the NanoVLSI Alliance, have launched the NanoSystems Partnership Program (NSyP) to accelerate delivery of nanosystems-based innovations to the market.

From CEA-Leti 14 Oct 2010

GE Partners with Solar Frontier for Thin-Film Solar Modules

Solar Frontier announced today that it will supply GE with its proprietary CIS (copper, indium, and selenium) thin-film solar modules as part of GE’s globally marketed portfolio of solar energy solutions. The co...

14 Oct 2010

Three New Companies Join GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ Design Ecosystem

GLOBALFOUNDRIES today introduced three newly certified design services companies as part of its GLOBALSOLUTIONS partner ecosystem. Infotech Enterprises Limited, Verisilicon, and Wipro Limited have joined GLOBALSOLUTIONS, further strengthening the company’s ability to help customers accelerate time-to-volume for complex systems-on-chip (SoCs) on advanced technology nodes.

From GlobalFoundries 14 Oct 2010

First Nanotitanium Dental Implant to be Placed in the Mouth of Co-Inventor

A group of ground-breaking American and Russian scientists, led by Dr. Terry Lowe, chief scientist at Manhattan Scientifics (OTCBB: MHTX) are taking Cold War weapons technology and repurposing it for peaceful use in medi...

14 Oct 2010

Votum to Distribute Ascent Solar’s Thin-Film CIGS Modules in the Czech Republic

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a developer of flexible thin-film solar modules, announced today that Votum, a Czech Republic-based solar integrator, will begin distribution of Ascent Solar’s lightweight, flexible, high power thin-film CIGS modules for building integrated (BIPV), building applied (BAPV) and portable power solutions in the Czech Republic.

14 Oct 2010

Thinfilm and PARC to Bring Innovative Technologies to Printed Electronics Market

Thinfilm (Thin Film Electronics ASA), a provider of advanced printed memory technology, and PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated), a premier center for commercial innovation, today announced that they are working together to provide next-generation memory technology enabled through printed electronics.

14 Oct 2010

SRC, NSF to Offer $2 Million Funds for Nanoelectronics Research

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world’s leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, joined today with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund $2 million in supplemental grants for nanoelectronics research.

14 Oct 2010